Writing in Time

Winner of the 2023 Richard J. Finneran Award for the best book about editorial theory or practice. For more than half a century, the story of Emily Dickinsons Master documents has been the largely biographical tale of three letters to an unidentified individual. Writing in Time seeks to tell a different storythe story of the documents themselves. Rather than presenting the Master documents as quarantined from Dickinsons larger scene of textual production, Marta Werners innovative new edition proposes reading them next to Dickinsons other major textual experiment in the years between ca. 18581861: the Fascicles. In both, Dickinson can be seen testing the limits of address and genre in order to escape bibliographical determination and the very coordinates of mastery itself. A major event in Dickinson scholarship, Writing in Time: Emily Dickinsons Master Hours proposes new constellations of Dickinsons work as well as exciting new methodologies for textual scholarship as an act of intimate editorial investigation.